A Tale of Two Law Firms: Perkins Fights Trump, Paul Weiss Bends

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By Roy Strom and Meghan Tribe

March 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM UTC

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Two of the nation’s largest law firms are taking drastically different approaches to being targeted by President Donald Trump: acceptance and defiance.

For both firms, Paul Weiss and Perkins Coie, there is no clean resolution when caught in the president’s unprecedented assault on the legal profession.